Newest Release of the Famous IntelliJ IDEA Available to Public

Major release delivers rich set of significant
new features, surprises with speed improvements

December 08, 2009

Prague, Czech Republic, December 08, 2009 — JetBrains®,
the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software
developers, have announced the public availability of IntelliJ IDEA 9, the
newest version of its award-winning Java IDE.

Starting with version 9, IntelliJ IDEA is
offered in two editions: Community Edition, free and open-source, and Ultimate
Edition, encompassing 100% of the famous IntelliJ IDEA functionality.

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is the perfect choice
for those working on pure Java/Groovy applications or doing Swing development.
It has all the crown jewels of IntelliJ IDEA, including numerous refactorings
and code inspections, coding assistance, debugging, TestNG and JUnit testing;
CVS, Subversion and Git support, as well as Ant and Maven build integration.

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is the full-featured
commercial IntelliJ IDEA with a complete set of tools and integrations with the
most important modern technologies and frameworks, such as Spring and Hibernate
— a must-have for effective Web and Java EE development. Some of the general
features that set the Ultimate edition apart include tight Perforce, Rational
ClearCase and Microsoft Team Foundation Server integration, Dependency Structure
Matrix, advanced code manipulation with structural search and replace.

"We're happy to make this latest release not only packed full of new
functionality, but also impressive in terms of the IDE performance, especially
startup speed," said Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains CEO. "IntelliJ IDEA 9
offers many great new features, such as support for Java EE 6, Spring 3.0,
OSGi, Android, and Tapestry, as well as many productivity and usability
improvements. We keep up with all the latest technology trends and enjoy close
cooperation
with our users, whose feedback and overall contribution helps us stay on the
cutting edge."

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